Air Force Fiscal Year 2027 Young Investigator Program (YIP)
- Award ceiling
- $150,000 – $450,000
- Closes
- Dec 4, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-09-11
Awards $150,000 – $450,000 per recipient for for profit organizations other than small businesses, nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than institutions of higher education, nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, closing Dec 4, 2026.
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Air Force Fiscal Year 2027 Young Investigator Program (YIP) awards $150,000 – $450,000 per recipient, open to for profit organizations other than small businesses, nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than institutions of higher education, nonprofits that do not have a…
- Program pool (total)
- $4,500,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $450,000No single year may exceed $150,000
- Award floor
- $150,000
- Typical award
- Not stated
- Deadline
- Dec 4, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Sep 8, 2026
- Status
- Open
- Eligible entities
- For profit organizations other than small businesses · Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education · Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education · Private institutions of higher education · Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- No
- Disbursement
- Advance(s)
- Application effort
- Medium
- Use of funds
- basic research · early career development of outstanding young investigators
- Currency
- USD
How much money is available?
Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.
Source wording: “No single year may exceed $150,000”
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitNot confirmed
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
Proposals must be received electronically through Grants.gov by 04 December 2026
What can the money be used for?
2 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.
How hard is the application?
3 fieldsEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Medium
- Disbursement
- Advance(s)
- Matching funds
- No
What comparable notices state
114 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Science, Technology, Research & Development, 114 of 354 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$500,000
- Median$1,500,000
- 75th percentile$5,000,000
A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.
Common questions
8 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- $150,000 – $450,000 per recipient. The source states: “No single year may exceed $150,000”.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $4,500,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- When is the application deadline?
- Dec 4, 2026. Proposals must be received electronically through Grants.gov by 04 December 2026
- Who is eligible to apply?
- For profit organizations other than small businesses, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
- What can the funding be used for?
- basic research, early career development of outstanding young investigators, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- No. The source states that no matching funds are required.
- Is the money paid up front or reimbursed?
- Paid in advance rather than as a reimbursement.
- How demanding is the application?
- Medium, on the source's own classification.
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